Re: [Linecontrol-development] System log fills up with modprobe: cannot find ppp0 error messages.

[S. F. <sf...@gm...>]

Hi,

> I am using Linesrv2.1 in conjunction with a dial up modem on stock Red 
> Hat 8.0.  When there is no connection, the system log fills up with 
> error messages of the form: modprobe: cannot find module ppp0.  
> 
> To work round this I have commented out the call to check_con_status() 
> in linesrv.c.  As no other applictions use ppp0 directly on my 
> installation this kludge is acceptable.  The remaining socket polling 
> seems to occur sufficiently infrequently not to cause problems with the 
> syslog.
> 
> I assume that I cannot permanently activate ppp0 because I am using 
> ip-up.local to set up NAT and firewall rules based on a dynamically 
> allocated IP address.  Perhaps someone knows differently?

This hasn't to do directly with linesrv, it's rather a misconfiguration
of your system. You should load the module ppp (or something like that)
and/or modify your /etc/modules.conf (or similar... I don't know RH).
See some howto (Modules) or other module/ppp releated docs.

Greetings

S. Fuchs